Diwan Bahadur Sakkottai Krishnaswamy Aiyangar FRAS (15 April 1871 – 26 November 1946) was an Indian historian, academician and Dravidologist.
[citation needed] Aiyangar was elected a member of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1908 and was conferred a Diwan Bahadur title in 1928.
[citation needed] Krishnaswamy Aiyangar was born in a Tamil brahmin family[1] at village of Sakkottai near Kumbakonam on 15 April 1871.
[7] At about the same time, Aiyangar took over a struggling periodical called Journal of Indian History which was started by Shafaat Ahmed Khan in 1921.
[8] Aiyangar faced financial difficulties in the beginning but rescued the journal by persuading the University of Kerala to take over the magazine.
[4] In his 1921-book Ancient India, Aiyangar states that the Hoysala king Veera Ballala III "made a patriotic effort to dislodge the Muhammadans from the South... fell in the effort, and brought his dynasty to an end in carrying on this great national war of the Hindus".